PRE-ORDER THE LATEST PUZZLING PHENOMENON NOW – SPYDLE PROMISES TO PERPLEX AND DELIGHT WITH TALES OF ESPIONAGE AND INTRIGUE

The fates of nations, outcomes of wars and general sweep of history have all hinged on the cracking of devious and devilishly difficult codes by spymasters.

In Spydle, the National Archives and Britain’s leading puzzle masterminds, Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, have drawn on five centuries of British spycraft and cryptography to compile an unputdownable history of real-life codebreaking and espionage through a series of addictive puzzles.

Using actual documents, maps, ciphers, plans, letters or telegrams from plots and espionage relating to Mary Queen of Scots, the Gunpowder Plot, Mata Hari, Agent Zigzag and dozens more, Spydle’s puzzles are based on real codes and conundrumsSome of them only recently discovered...

History’s most fiendish espionage puzzles require solving. Can you be the spymaster the country needs and alter the course of history? Or will you be left scratching your head?
Play Spydle to find out . . .

Format Häftad Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2024-10-03 ISBN 9781405969017